Q: Can Malware jump from an infected PC to an Android smartphone?

[Prince Cairo]

Tech brehs, what do you know about this?

I transferred some music from an older laptop onto my smartphone a few weeks back. Come to find out that laptop has a bug. I figured not a big deal because we're talking two completely different platforms.

Now, every once in a while, I'll be on my phone's browser and I'll randomly get a very suspicious pop-up tap asking me to follow this link and shyt. Oddly enough, I've only ever seen that page come up when I'm browsing Thecoli.com.

I've read that a factory reset will remove any malicious software, but I'm hoping I don't need to do that. I've installed the free AVG android app and run periodic scans but they come back all clear.

And guidance would be immensely appreciated and rewarded in the form of +rep

 

[2gunsup]

Doubt it, different architectures... Unless someone coded a Java virus that can run on both somehow. If you don't have Java on your PC then I don't think it's possible.

 

[5010]

You can transfer malware to your phone, but it doesn't mean it can do anything if it wasn't coded for Android.

Those redirects you are getting are from ads.

 

[MewTwo]

Different OS. A piece of code that works on Windows 10 won't work on Android. It is possible for your router to be infected though (but doubt that's the case)

 

[Tunez]

It only pops up when you browse thecoli. enough said

 

[Chris Cool]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/report-problems-with-bad-adverts-popups-redirects-intrusive.281547/

 

[satam55]

Tech brehs, what do you know about this?

I transferred some music from an older laptop onto my smartphone a few weeks back. Come to find out that laptop has a bug. I figured not a big deal because we're talking two completely different platforms.

Now, every once in a while, I'll be on my phone's browser and I'll randomly get a very suspicious pop-up tap asking me to follow this link and shyt. Oddly enough, I've only ever seen that page come up when I'm browsing Thecoli.com.

I've read that a factory reset will remove any malicious software, but I'm hoping I don't need to do that. I've installed the free AVG android app and run periodic scans but they come back all clear.

And guidance would be immensely appreciated and rewarded in the form of +rep

nikka that's like asking if a Windows desktop app can work on your Android phone. HELL NO!

 

[Prince Cairo]

Caved and did a factory reset anyway. Problem seems to be gone now.

Is that ad issue a common problem around here?

 

[ATearInMyEye]

Quit being a pervert and stop watching porn , you Cuckold.

 

[Peter Parker]

lol no they can't

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

YOU GOTTA KEEP A WALL OF RICE BETWEEN YOUR DEVICES

 

[OH SOHH TRILL]

YOU GOTTA KEEP A WALL OF RICE BETWEEN YOUR DEVICES

Just needs to download more RAM and he'll be good.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Android is trash

 

[606onit]

Im sick of the congratulations malware i get on chrome when using this site

 

[BaggerofTea]

1. Get a malwarebytes subscription
2. Depends on the type of malware

Yes there is malware (technically a computer worm) that can detect external connections on a pwned bx and could transfer itself to the other device.

Based off of the context, thats not your issue.

More of thecoli owners being bytch ass nikkas allowing any and all ad redirecets

Get some sort of ad blocker to deal with the issue.